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Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide product to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.
Position Description
This is a hybrid leadership role requiring a hands-on technical leader who can drive architecture, design, and implementation of AI-powered solutions end-to-end, while also building, mentoring, and leading a high-performing team of engineers.
A Senior Manager will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our core insurance platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will:
Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members
Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
Contribute as a hands-on technical leader to the architecture, system design and implementation of core services including API and microservice development, storage/persistence implementations, messaging and a variety of other technical areas.
Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices
Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
Craft and deliver persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement, cost leadership, and customer experience enhancement
Manage up to leadership and provide feedback when necessary
Mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements
Contribute significantly to the team planning process, including surfacing team’s proposals
Ability to construct roadmaps, manage and translate projects into deliverables, adjust priorities, and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed
Qualifications
Fluency with C#/.NET , HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures
Required: Extensive experience leading the design, implementation, and adoption of AI technologies, supporting by hands-on expertise and a deep understanding of AI/ML, generative AI, and enterprise-scale AI solutions.
Fluency with at least one additional modern language such as Java, Python or GO and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Ability to be hands-on developing software at least 10-20% of the time
Strong knowledge of system design, architecture and full lifecycle of design, implementation and productionizing of core Services and APIs.
Passionate for all things testing (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architecture, micro-services, messaging technology and optimal storage/persistence approaches.
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, etc.)
Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.)
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Understanding of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage
Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics for decision-making, prioritization, and progress visibility
Strong site reliability engineering principles
Strong passion for technology and engineering excellence
Exceptional leadership and communication skills
Effective negotiation abilities
Strategic thinking and the ability to drive projects for positive change
Experience
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices
5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
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Annual Salary
$140,000.00 - $300,000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
